All social media platforms have a duty to protect their users, resulting in under 13-year-olds not being able to use the platforms. That also means that you have to enter your date of birth when you first register an account. Furthermore, they also need to make it difficult for you to change your age, as it is too easy to put in fake information and then change it later on. COPA or the Children's Online Protection Act 1994 makes companies like TikTok regulate their accounts with stringent rules. Therefore, if you have registered and are under 13-years old, you will likely have your account deleted as soon as they notice. Furthermore, if you have registered with a fake date of birth, you also risk losing your account. That means, if you accidentally entered the wrong date of birth when you registered, you need to know how to change your age on TikTok. Here is a quick guide, but take note, it is not easy.
How To Change Your Age On TikTok
Because of people manipulating their own age to enable sign-ups when they are under 13, there is no way that you can update your date of birth through the app itself. Therefore, you will need to use TikTok support to verify the change that you want to make. Here is how:
- Open your TikTok app.
- Login to your profile
- Click the three-dot icon in the top right corner.
- Scroll down to the support section
- Click on report a problem. - Yes, you need to report a problem. There is no quicker way for the TikTok team to understand the problem on the account.
- Fill in the box with your issue.
You will be asked to provide an official identification document to show your age. The main problem with that is; most people under 18 do not have any ID of the type they require. However, you can ask if a form of school identification will suffice. Alternatively, you can see if your state has an option for an identification document that you can use, or send your birth certificate or passport if you have them.
Conclusion
Changing your age on TikTok has never, and probably will never, be easy. There are too many people taking advantage of it to get an account earlier than they should. Therefore, it is wise for you to wait until you are old enough and then enter your real date of birth. However, if you have made a genuine mistake, you can change it through the report button, but it is likely to be a slow process. If you created your account with the wrong date of birth, before you were 13, and you try to change it, you face deletion of your account.
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